Rebuttal I saw a post recently by a Christian blogger on Patheos claiming that about 18 years ago he was healed of some incurable disease and that it was evidence of God’s existence. I have a very similar personal anecdote…and oddly enough I find little to no evidence that it was indeed divine intervention that saved me. [Read More...]

This seems appropriate It seems like some of us have that figured out. Fortunately, I don’t. I hope it stays that way. I’ve been real busy lately talking to reporters, calling individuals in the military about religious violations, and putting my two cents in with some members of Congress about the upcoming vote for the [Read More...]

“You’re with me or you’re against me” Recently, I’ve been contemplating speaking my mind on this subject. Actually for a long time. It’s rather upsetting in a community that is supposed to adhere to the values of skeptical inquiry, scientific analysis, and rational questioning that we are required as a matter of principle to abandon [Read More...]

Official Instructions Available here. So people have been tossing grenades these last couple weeks. As an experienced grenadier I thought I’d throw a few pointers out there. For starters most people assume the grenade in use today is the old-school pineapple grenade that looks like this: That is incorrect. Before I joined the Marines I [Read More...]

Road Trip! Adam, a friend of mine who served in the Army, is currently making a cross-country road trip. He’s a pretty outspoken atheist, a combat veteran who was highly decorated in Iraq, and a pretty cool guy to boot! He was in the Army, which isn’t as cool as the Marines, but I forgive [Read More...]

This weekend my wife and I announced that we are having a baby. It’s always nice to share news like that. After being able to share that news with everyone you’d think life would be honky-dory but sometimes you can’t go a day without douchebaggery. Family and people I know from my previous life as [Read More...]

An interesting thing happened at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in July (2013), to little fanfare and even less media coverage; the VA approved the addition of the “Hammer of Thor” to their list of symbols allowed to be placed on the tombstones at the grave sites of veterans who are buried in veteran [Read More...]

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